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74. a man's.. .say 'One* Adams (p. 321) concurs
in this interpretation.
77-8. For by the image,. .his Cf. Span. Trag. in.
xiii. 84-5:
Whiles wretched I in thy mishaps may see
The liuely portrait of my dying selfe.
108. S.D. Johnson gives 'Hamlet moves him to put
on his hat.'
no . for mine ease Travers quotes from Florio's
Second Fruits, 1591:
Why do you stand bareheaded? you do yourself wrong.
Pardon me, good sir, I do it for my ease.
222. S.D. (p. 251) Bated foils were still in use on
the stage in 1668. Cf. Dryden, Essay of Dramatic Poetry,
i. 62 {Essays of John Dryden, ed. by W. P. Ker).
For what is more ridiculous than... to see a duel fought
and one slain with two or three thrusts of the foils-, which we
know are so blunted that we might give a man an hour to
kill another in good earnest with them ?
(8 lines from foot) Between 'while' and 'shirts of
mail' insert: 'Egerton Castle (p. 346, n. 1) states that
there is internal evidence in many books of the period
that.'
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257. Osric A. H. J. Knight in Der bestrafte Bruder-
mord and Hamlet, Act v' (M.L.R. July, 1936,
pp. 3855".) shows that Phantasmo (Osric) was certainly
an accomplice in the Brudermord.
270. union Adams (pp. 325-26) notes that Sir
Thomas Gresham at the opening of the Royal Exchange
in 1571 drank to the honour of Queen Elizabeth a cup
of wine in which had been dissolved a pearl costing

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285. fat, and scant of breath Cf. M. P. Tilley,
Journ. Eng. and Germ. Phil. xxiv. 315-19, who calls
attention to the popular belief of Sh.'s time that perspira-
tion was oozing fat, and corr. T.L.S. May 26, 1927.
Cf. above 3. 4. 92-3.